January 4, 2025

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-01-04

This edition highlights must-see stories that slipped under the radar on a busy Friday.

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By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.

Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀

Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

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Techmeme: The US sanctions Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Technology over its alleged links to China-backed hacking group Flax Typhoon (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

By Carly Page / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Sources: Chinese state-sponsored hackers accessed senior US Treasury officials' computers but did not breach the department's email system and classified data (Bloomberg)

From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Apple agrees to pay $95M to settle a lawsuit claiming it recorded private conversations after Siri was unintentionally activated and shared the data with others (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

By Jonathan Stempel / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting the profiles (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

By Jason Koebler / 404 Media. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: PitchBook: generative AI companies worldwide raised $56B from VCs in 2024 across 885 deals, up 192% from 2023, with startups outside the US raising just $6.2B (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

By Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

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